On Jan 1, 5:05 pm, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED] cybersource.com.au> wrote: > On Tue, 01 Jan 2008 13:55:10 -0800, PatrickMinnesota wrote: > > The idea is that your data and applications are on the net, rather than > > your local hard drive. > > Or, to put it another way, your data and applications are controlled by > another company rather than you. > > Not that I wish to be cynical or anything like that. > > -- > Steven
I see. So cloud computing is java dickless^H^H^H^H^H^Hskless workstations warmed over but less flexible? I'm having trouble understanding why people would want to buy in to this. For example at the amazon site I see things like "it might take a couple minutes to load your image..." Are they joking? hmmm. -- Aaron Watters === http://www.xfeedme.com/nucular/pydistro.py/go?FREETEXT=try+not+to+allocate+too+many+objects+okay -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
